Elephants or onions? Paying for nature in Amboseli, Kenya
Traditional grazing grounds near Amboseli National Park (Kenya) are being rapidly converted to cropland – a process that closes important wildlife corridors. We use a spatially explicit simulation model that integrates ecosystem dynamics and pastoral decision-making to explore the scope for introducing a ‘payments for ecosystem services’ scheme to compensate pastoralists for spillover benefits associated with forms of land use that are compatible with wildlife conservation. Our break-even cost analysis suggests that the benefits of such a scheme likely exceed its costs for a large part of the study area, but that ‘leakage effects’ through excessive stocking rates warrant close scrutiny.
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2008
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Authors: | BULTE, ERWIN H. ; BOONE, RANDALL B. ; STRINGER, RANDY ; THORNTON, PHILIP K. |
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Environment and Development Economics. - Cambridge University Press. - Vol. 13.2008, 03, p. 395-414
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Cambridge University Press |
Description of contents: | Abstract [journals.cambridge.org] |
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